Re: as86 solved
Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:42:38PM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
>> I wonder why bin86 wasn't included in the
>> dependancies for kernel-package and
>> kernel-source-2.2.18pre21....
>
>I wondered this myself once, enough to file a bug against kernel-package.
>But it is a design decision as Debian runs on many platforms but the
>dependancy for as86 occurs only on x86.
... and, furthermore, kernel-package is architecture-independent,
otherwise it would be possible to have an architecture-specific
dependency.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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